Smart Posted May 31, 2002 Share Posted May 31, 2002 yeah, the more we discuss it, the more I'm remembering.. .like how I learned all this a very long time ago, as a child... I built one from a kit that came in my National Geographic World magazine... I wonder what's happening at work right now...??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted May 31, 2002 Share Posted May 31, 2002 ... so, I started playing guitar and... anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted May 31, 2002 Share Posted May 31, 2002 so here's a little background on the zoetrope's inventor... 1872 - EADWEARD JAMES MUYBRIDGE - (1830-1904) Muybridge uses a battery of 24 cameras to photographh a race horse owned by California Governor Leland Stanford. The resulting 24 pictures taken as the trotting horse raced past, was the beginning of what would become known as stop-action series photography. Muybridge would continue the study of motion and the theory of locomotion using animals, and later, humans. Muybridge's investigations into the gate of a horse at the Sacramento race track were inconclusive. and the cycle looked like this... http://www.precinemahistory.net/sallie_gardner.gif'> not like this... http://www.precinemahistory.net/elephant.gif'> he did build a projector later called the Zoopraxiscope, and it cost over 40,000$ to build. That's a hell of a heap of cash in 1880! :eek: :eek: :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted May 31, 2002 Share Posted May 31, 2002 before that horse flick was produced, artists used to always draw/paint horses with at least one foot on the ground... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted May 31, 2002 Share Posted May 31, 2002 yep! it was actually a bet that made Muybridge go to all the trouble. He was bet that he could prove that a horse's hooves lost all contact with the ground while in a gallop. And he won! yay for gambling... the force of progress ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted May 31, 2002 Share Posted May 31, 2002 Ahhh, Gambling... Is there anything it CAN'T do? gambling also gave us the sandwich... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Tesseract Posted May 31, 2002 Share Posted May 31, 2002 Best food...nice gif's Zest, there are a dozen artists that commited suicide after they discovered mistakes like that in their works...umm at least the decent ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_MoeLarryCurly Posted June 1, 2002 Share Posted June 1, 2002 i guess i'll be on the lookout for these when im in europe this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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